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<title><![CDATA[Robert Novak - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14508.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Robert Novak]]></description><category domain="14508">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Gingrich 2012?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/11/gingrich_in_2012.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Novak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In serious conversations among Republicans since their election debacle Tuesday, what name is mentioned most often as the Moses, or Reagan, who could lead them out of the wilderness before 40 years?To the consternation of many Republicans, it is none other than Newt Gingrich, the former...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No Mandate for Obama, No Lopsided Congress]]></title>
							<link>http://www.suntimes.com/news/novak/1260688,CST-NWS-novak05.article</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Novak</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[An Illegitimate Baby: A Blessing or a Punishment?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/10/an_illegitimate_baby_a_blessin.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Novak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Not until 30 minutes had elapsed in the third and last presidential debate Wednesday night did the national candidates turn their attention to abortion -- the country's most explosive social issue, which divides millions of Americans. What makes this remarkable is that Sen....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An Illegitimate Baby: Blessing or Punishment?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/10/an_illegitimate_baby_a_blessin.html?eid=85257</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Novak</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Our Founding Partisans]]></title>
							<link>http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=14008</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Novak</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Will Obama Pay for New Spending?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/10/how_will_obama_pay_for_new_spe.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Novak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How would Barack Obama pay for the $800 billion that John McCain claimed in the first presidential debate Sept. 26 in Oxford, Miss., that his Democratic opponent would spend if he were elected president? Obama replied, by "closing tax loopholes."Obama was no more specific in the debate,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How a Tumor Is Changing My Life]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/09/how_a_tumor_is_changing_my_lif.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Novak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The main reason I am writing this column is that many people have asked me how I first realized I was suffering from a brain tumor and what I have done about it.But I also want to relate the reaction to my disease, mostly compassionate, that belies Washington's...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[McCain Comes Through]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/09/mccain_comes_through.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Novak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Partisan Democrats and many members of the media consider John McCain's choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate a terrible mistake. But McCain need not worry about their criticism. His unexpected selection satisfied the people he needed to please. Republican conservatives...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Avoiding a Lieberman Disaster]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/08/avoiding_a_lieberman_disaster.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Novak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Reports of strong support within John McCain's presidential campaign for Independent Democratic Sen. Joseph Lieberman as the Republican candidate for vice president are not a fairy tale. Influential McCain backers, plus McCain himself, would pick the pro-choice...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can McCain Back in Again?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/07/can_mccain_back_in_again.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Novak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- In the contest for president, Barack Obama is a magnetic candidate supported by a disciplined, well-organized campaign. John McCain seems wooden, with a campaign that appears to be in shambles. Yet Obama's lead in the polls over McCain is fragile because he so far has not...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Romney's Value]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/07/romneys_value.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Novak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The principal reason why former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has climbed to the top of Sen. John McCain's practical wish list for vice president is the possibility that he could bring Michigan's 17 electoral votes to the Republicans for the first time since 1988.   ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Soldier Voting Scandal]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/07/the_soldier_voting_scandal.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Novak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Rep. Roy Blunt, the House Republican whip, on July 8 introduced a resolution demanding that the Defense Department better enable U.S. military personnel overseas to vote in the November elections. That act was followed by silence. Democrats normally leap on an...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Iraq Spotlight]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/07/obamas_iraq_spotlight.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Novak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, D.C. -- I asked one of the Republican Party's smartest, most candid heavy hitters this week whether John McCain really has a chance to defeat Barack Obama in this season of Republican discontent. "No, if the campaign is about McCain," he replied. "Yes, if it's about Obama."...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's CEOs]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/07/obamas_ceos.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Novak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Sen. Barack Obama has been meeting secretly with heavy industry CEOs in Washington to discuss issues that he would face as president.             On the campaign trail, Obama has been highly critical of corporate executives and promised them nothing but tougher...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cost of Cronyism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/07/cost_of_cronyism.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Novak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, D.C. -- As financial storm signals appeared the last 18 months, there were Bush officials who urged drastic reform of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. But, according to internal government sources, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson objected because it would look "too political."...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Oil Paranoia]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/07/oil_paranoia.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Novak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, back from the Fourth of July break, last week delivered a typical harangue on Republican obstructionism and Democratic virtue that included a promise: By week's end, he would show Republicans his proposal to deal with "this speculation...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Wave Goodbye to Lieberman]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/07/goodbye_joe.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Novak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Despite assurances to the contrary from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Democratic insiders are certain Sen. Joseph Lieberman next year will be kicked out of the party's caucus and lose his Senate chairmanship if he addresses the Republican National Convention in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Clintonites at Arm's Length]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/07/an_underwhelming_nominee.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Novak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, D.C. -- "I would say he was pretty underwhelming," said Lawyer Gus several days after he and some 200 other big-money supporters of Hillary Clinton's failed presidential campaign met with the victor, Barack Obama, in Washington on June 26. Lawyer Gus is a longtime Democratic...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No Permanent GOP Minority]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/07/no_permanent_gop_minority.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Novak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, D.C. -- When House Republican leaders left Washington for their Fourth of July break, they felt good about outwitting the Democratic majority. The feeling was not reciprocated 3,000 miles away, where conservative California Republican activists were drafting an ultimatum. The...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Inside Report: Gen. Clark's Attack]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/07/inside_report_gen_clarks_attac.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Novak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Retired Gen. Wesley Clark, whose stock as Sen. Barack Obama's possible vice presidential running mate had been rising, may have ruined his chances with his belittling attack on Sen. John McCain's war record. Clark, along with other Obama surrogates, followed the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Visitor From Pakistan]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/07/visitor_from_pakistan.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Novak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Yousuf Raza Gilani, prime minister of Pakistan, will lunch with George W. Bush in the White House on Monday, July 28. That will not be merely another of the president's routine meetings with foreign leaders. As Pakistan's democratically elected government and U.S....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gun Ruling Lets Obama Off the Hook]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/06/scalia_saves_obama.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Novak</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dodd Leaves Fed Chairs Empty]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/06/empty_fed_chairs.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Novak</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obamacons On the Rise?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/06/two_big_obamacons_1.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Novak</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Reform Plan is Chance for McCain]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/06/a_chance_for_mccain.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Novak</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[How to Hit Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/06/how_to_hit_obama.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Novak</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Tim Russert, My Friend and My Source]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/06/my_friend_and_my_source.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Novak</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Fed Doesn't Rise]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/06/the_fed_doesnt_raise.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Novak</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Joe Biden For Vice President?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/06/biden_for_vp.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Novak</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Decline of the Senate]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/06/decline_of_the_senate.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Novak</author>
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